No detectable impact of small-scale disturbances on ‘blue carbon’ within seagrass beds

Marine Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2939-2944

  Macreadie, Peter I ^a,b   York, Paul H ^c   Sherman, Craig D H ^b   Keough, Michael J ^d   Ross, D Jeff ^e   Ricart, Aurora M ^f   Smith, Timothy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISTURBANCE; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; SEAGRASS;

AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84911808174     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: 14321793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-014-2558-8     Document Type: Article

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